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Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…volunteering in any given week at Martha’s Kitchen food pantry in downtown San Jose, California than at Sunday services at the church across the street. If Facebook is killing the church, that is, it’s probably more accurate to call it an assisted suicide. Clicking the Church Catholic Rather than “killing the church,” available data suggest that social media can be a part of revitalizing religious practice. Hence the loopy zeal with which Pope Ben…

Republicans Silent on Islamophobia

By Sarah Posner

…on, and is Christian, speak in 2007, at John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. I reported in my book, God’s Profits: Gabriel, author of the book Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America, attempts to draw parallels between her experience in Lebanon and an Islamic threat to American democracy. When Muslims became a majority in Lebanon (“they multiply much more quickly than we do”), [Gabriel claimed] Christians were “att…

Polygamist Warren Jeffs Convicted of Sexual Assault

By Anthea Butler

…5 year-old girls who were “spiritually married” to him. The trial, held in San Angelo, Texas, was short but disturbing, with audiotapes and photographs of Jeffs’ crimes presented to the jury. During the trial, Jeffs fired his defense team, and defended himself with rambling missives and an affidavit he claimed came from God. Often, he just sat in silence. The jury verdict came quickly after hearing particularly sordid testimony, including the test…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…The Atheist Agenda, an atheist student group at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will give you pornography in exchange for your Bible as part of their “smut for smut” campaign. In related news, this weekend isn’t just Super Bowl Sunday, it’s also Porn Sunday. The XXXChurch is using videos featuring NFL quarterbacks to get churches talking about porn addictions. Fox Sports rejected another religiously-themed Super Bowl ad. This time they sai…

Controversial “Bishop of the Poor” Dies at 86

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…udying at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bishop Ruiz led the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas from 1959 to 2000. In the 1990s he served as mediator in an attempt to end the conflict between the Mexican government and the indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army in Chiapas. Though he was asked to step down as mediator for supposedly favoring the Zapatistas, the tentative truce between the two groups has been sustained since 1998. He is…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rn in its ethos, a point made far more concretely by the announcement that San Francisco start-up Rethink Books will be launching software with which publishers can produce books as iPad apps that allow for collaborative, social reading. Like so many ancient and medieval religious sages, readers will have the opportunity to share commentary, debate interpretations, offer illuminations, and otherwise collaboratively immerse themselves in intellectu…

The Exorcist Files, Getting Mad at God, The Obama Prayer…

By Michael J. Altman

…n atheists. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found a war memorial cross in San Diego unconstitutional because it was a government endorsement of religion. The Army’s “spiritual fitness” test is coming under fire from church-state organizations who claim it is unconstitutional. Despite the new Republican majority in the House, the religious makeup of the 112th Congress is about the same as the previous one. Like the rest of the country, Congress ha…

2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

By Julie Ingersoll

…ntment at home among their daughters in a Father and Daughter retreat, the promotion of hyper masculinity and patriarchalism dominated most of the remaining “lessons.” They promoted the biblical “discipleship” of children at 22 home schooling conferences, meeting what they call “one of [their] primary goals: to promote the restoration of the biblical family.” They see the “home schooling community as central to this effort [and] seek to encourage…

Yo, Gays, Stop Bogarting that Rainbow!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sbians give up their grip on the rainbow. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of the San Diego-based Ruth Institute [a project of the National Organization for Marriage] rightly argues that the rainbow is a sign of God’s covenant with man, and she says proponents of Proposition 8—California’s measure that passed in 2008 to define marriage as between a man and a woman—are the original “rainbow coalition.” “Proposition 8 was passed by a great grassroots coali…

CUFI Entices Donors for Israel with Christmas Ornament

By Sarah Posner

Christians United for Israel, the apocalyptic advocacy group founded by San Antonio televangelist John Hagee, has just announced a generous donor who offered to match donations of up to $500,000, to help it raise a million dollars by the end of the year. CUFI has always maintained — despite all evidence to the contrary — that it is primarily motivated by concern for Israel and the Jews, not by Hagee’s apocalyptic vision for the return of Jesus at…